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LAWS RELATING TO 
EDUCATION 



Enacted by the Florida Legislature 
of 1917 and 1919 



Compiled by W. N. SHE ATS, 
Stale Superintendent of Public Instr action. 



Constitutional Amendment. 



A JOINT EESOLUTION Proposing An Amendment to 
Section 8 of Article XII of the Constitution of the 
State of Florida, Relating to Education. 

Be It Resolved hij the Legislature of the State of Florida : 

That the following amendment of Section 8 of Article 
XII of the Constitution of the State of Florida relating 
to education is hereby agreed to and shall be submitted 
to the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at 
the next general election of representatives, to be held 
in the year A. D. 1918; that is to say, that Section 8 of 
Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Florida 
be amended so as to read as follows : 

Section 8. Each county shall be required to assess and 
collect annually for the support of the public free schools 
therein a tax of not less than three (3) mills, nor more imum"^counfy 
than ten (10) mills, on the dollar of all taxable property ^*^^°°^ **^- 
in the same. 

Approved May 25, 1917. 

Adopted at the general election, 1918. 



FLAG LAW. 



CHAPTEE 7369. 



Display the 
flag daily. 



Duty of 
whom. 



AN ACT to Provide for the Procuring and the Display 
of the Flag of the United States of America Over the 
Capitol, Each State Institution, County Court House 
and County School Building in This State. 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. The flag of the United States of America 
shall be displayed daily, when the weather permits, from 
a staff upon the State Capitol, county courthouse, upon 
one building of each State educational institution, an 3 
upon every county public school building, except when 
the institution or school is closed for vacation. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the officer or officers 
charged with the maintenance or upkeep of said build- 
ings to provide suitable flags and cause them to be dis- 
played, the expense to be borne out of the funds pro- 
vided for the upkeep and maintenance of said buildings 
mentioned in Section One of this Act. 

Sec. 3. All laws in conflict are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect June 14, 1917. 

Approved April 21, 1917. 



TEACHER TRAINING DEPARTMENTS. 

CHAPTER 7371. 

AN ACT Providing That the Appropriation Made Under 
Chapter 6830, Acts of 1915, for the Purpose of Provid- 
ing Teacher Training in County High Schools be Made 
a Continuing Appropriation. 

Whereas, The Legislature of 1915 appropriated |50,000 
for the purpose of carrying on Teacher-Training in one 



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high school of each county in this State for two years; 
and 

Whereas, The greater part of the said appropriation 
has not been used but remains to the credit of the said 
Teacher-Training fund; therefore, 

Be It Enacted l)y the Leg'islature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That the unused part of appropriation 
made for Teacher-Training in high schools under Chap- uon^^^con-^" 
ter 6830, Acts of 1915, be, and hereby is made a contin- ^J^^^d. 
uing appropriation for the purposes specified in said 
Chapter 6830, Acts of 1915. 

Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict here- 
with be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 

Sec. This Act shall become a law upon its passage 
and approval by the Governor, or without his approval. 

Approved June 5, 1917. 



TEACHERS' CERTIFICATION AND EXAMINATION. 

CHAPTER 7372, ACTS OF 1917, AS AMENDED BY 
CHAPTERS 7914, AND 7942, ACTS OF 1919. 

AN ACT Providing for the Certification and Examina- 
tion of Teachers; Prescribing the Requirements for 
the Different Teachers' Certificates; Creating a State 
Board of Examiners, Prescribing Their Duties and 
Providing for Their Compensation and Expenses. 

Be It Enmyted J)y the Legislature of the State of Florida : 

Section 1. No person shall be permitted to teach in the 
public schools of this State who does not hold a teach- who ^auth^or- 
er's certificate granted under this Act; nor shall any 
County Board of Public Instruction employ, contract 
with, or pay any person salary for services as a teacher 
who does not hold a valid teacher's certificate granted 
under this Act; Provided, that the validity of no certifi- 



ized to teach. 



With whom cate issued under the laws of this State since A. D. 1894, 
SS;t™and shall be rendered invalid hereby; Provided, further, that 
p^y- nothing in this Act shall operate to reoeal Chapter 6540, 

Acts of 1913. 



Ten grades 
of certifi- 
cates. 



Sec. 2. There shall be ten grades of teachers' certifi- 
cates issued, the requirements for each being as herein- 
after specified, and such certificates shall be known and 
named as follows: temporary, primary, third grade, sec- 
ond grade, first grade, special, state, life primary, life 
first grade, life state certificate. 

Sec. 3. No certificate, except as otherwise provided in 
this Act, shall be issued except upon oral and written 
examination. 



Certificate 
must cover 
subjects 
taught. 



File charac- 
ter endorse- 
ment. 

Pees to be 
paid. 



Temporary 
certificate. 



Diploma 
holders must 
obtain cer- 
tificates. 



Primary cer- 
tificate. 



Sec. 4. No person shall teach any subject in a public 
school unless he holds a valid certificate covering the 
subject taught. 

Sec. 5. Any applicant for any certificate, before being 
eligible for examination, shall present to the Board of 
Examiners a written endorsement of good moral charac- 
ter, signed by two responsible persons, and shall pay the 
following examination fee: Applicants for third grade, 
$1; for second grade, |1.50; for first grade, |2.00; for 
primary, |3.00 ; for special, |2.50 ; for state, |5.00 ; which 
fees shall be applied as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 6. A temporary certificate shall be issued without 
examination by the State Superintendent upon the re- 
quest and recommendation of a County Superintendent 
of Public Instruction in an emergency, which emergency 
must be clearly set forth in said request for a temporary 
certificate; said certificate shall be valid for teaching 
only until the State Board of Examiners shall hold an 
examination within the County or an adjoining County 
in which the holder of said temporary certificate is em- 
ployed. 

Any person desiring to teach upon a diploma awarded 
outside of this State shall obtain a certificate before 
teaching as hereinafter provided in this Act. 

Sec. 7. A primary certificate shall be issued to any 
eligible applicant meeting the following requirements: 
First, who presents satisfactory evidence of having re- 



ceived either special instruction for one year or more in 
primary methods and practice teaching in a recognized 
normal school, or its equivalent; Second, who passes an 
oral and written examination on reading, arithmetic. 
English grammar, composition, geography and United 
States history, and makes an average grade of 80 per 
cent., with a grade on no subject below 60 per cent.; 
Third, who makes an average grade of 80 per cent., with 
a grade on no subject below 60 per cent, upon the fol- 
lowing subjects, as they relate to primary teaching, 
nature study, drawing, manual training, school singing 
and the elements of psychology. A primary certificate 
shall be valid for teaching only in the first, second or 
third grade of regular graded schools of four teachers or 
more, and shall be valid for only four years, except as 
otherwise provided in this Act. 

Sec. 8. Any eligible applicant passing a satisfactory 
oral and written examination on orthography, reading, certificate.^ 
arithmetic, English grammar, composition, geography, 
United States history, physiology and Theory and Prac- 
tice of Teaching, and making an average grade of 70 per 
cent., with a grade on no subject below 50 per cent., shall 
receive a third grade certificate valid for one year from 
date of issue. 



Third grade 



Second grade 



Sec. 9. Any eligible applicant passing a satisfactory 
oral and written examination on the subjects prescribed certificate. 
for a third grade certificate and on agriculture and civil 
government, and making an average grade of 80 per cent., 
with a grade on no subject below 60 per cent., shall re- 
ceive a second grade certificate valid for three years from 
date of issue. 

Sec. 10. Any eligible applicant passing a satisfactory 
oral and written examination on the subjects prescribed First grade 
for a second grade certificate and on physical geography ^^''t^^^^^*^- 
and algebra, and making an average grade of 85 per cent., 
with a grade on no subject below 60 per cent., shall re- 
ceive a first grade certificate valid for five years from 
date of issue, except as otherwise provided in this Act. 

Sec. 11. Any eligible applicant presenting satisfactory 
evidence of possessing ability to teach one or more sub- 
jects not embraced in the requirements for a second 
grade certificate, and passing a satisfactory oral and 



special 
certificate. 



State 
certificate. 



Life primaary 
certificate. 



Life first 
grade certifi- 
cate on 20 
years' teach- 
ing. 



Life first 
grade certifi- 
cate on 6 
years' teacli- 
inar. 



written examination on one or more subjects, sliali re- 
ceive a special certificate on every subject on wliicli a 
grade of 90 per cent, is made. A special certificate shall 
be valid for teacliing only the subjects covered by it and 
for five years from date of issue. 

Sec. 12. Any eligible applicant presenting satisfac- 
tory evidence of having taught successfully twenty-four 
months in all, and passing a satisfactory oral and writ- 
ten examination on geometry, trigonometry, physics, 
botany, zoology, Latin, rhetoric, English literature, psy- 
chology and general history, and making an average 
grade of 85 per cent., with a grade on no subject below 
60 per cent., shall receive a state certificate valid for 
five years from date of issue, except as otherwise pro- 
vided in this Act. 

Sec. 13. Any applicant filing with the State Super- 
intendent of Public Instruction a valid primary certifi- 
cate, and presenting satisfactory evidence of having 
taught successfully in the primary department of a reg- 
ular graded school of not less than four teachers for a 
period of thirty-two months under a primary certificate, 
shall receive a life primary certificate, valid during the 
life of the holder for teaching in the primary department 
only of any public school. 

Sec. 14. Any applicant filing with the State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction a valid first grade certifi- 
cate and presenting satisfactory evidence of having 
taught twenty years in the Public Free Schools of this 
State, the last ten years consecutively on first gi^ade cer- 
tificates, and as being of good moral character, faithful 
and successful as an instructor and disciplinarian, shall 
receive a life first grade certificate, valid during the life 
of the holder and in any part of the State. 

Sec. 15. Any applicant filing with the State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction two first grade certificates, 
each with an average of not less than 90 per cent., the 
last one valid, and presenting satisfactory evidence of 
having taught a total of forty-eight months on the cer- 
tificates filed, and as being of good moral character, 
faithful and successful as an instructor and disciplin- 
arian, shall receive a life first grade certificate, valid 
during the life of the holder and in any part of the State. 



Sec. 10. Any applicant filing Avith the State Superin- 
tendent of Pniilic Instruction a valid State certificate Life state 
issued in this State, and presenting satisfactory evidence certificate. 
of having taught successfully in a high school or college 
in this State for a period of eighteen montbs under a 
State certificate, and presenting endorsement of three 
holders of life State certificates as possessing eminent 
ability both as a teacher and disciplinarian, shall re- 
ceive a life State certificate of perpetual and State-wide 
validity. 

Any person filing with the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction one first grade certificate with three Life first, 
extensions of same, secured by attendance at either of fate^on%x-' 
the State Summer Schools, and presenting satisfactory tensions. 
evidence of having taught a total of forty-eight months 
on the certificate filed, and containing such extensions, 
and as being of good moral character, faithful and suc- 
cessful as an instructor and disciplinarian, shall receive 
a life first grade certificate, valid during the life of the 
liolder, and good in any part of the State. 

Sec. 17. (A). Any regular graduate of a standard 
university, college, or normal school requiring a four-year 
course for graduation, having graduated therefrom since 
June 15, 1905, and desiring a teacher's certificate in Flor- 
ida, shall file an application in the form prescribed by the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, which form 
shall contain, with other matter, a complete transcript 
of the applicant's college record, showing the branches 
pursued and completed with the grade made on each 
branch expressed on the basis of 100, and the number of 
months each branch was pursued in the school reporting, certificates 
with a certified copy of his or her diploma, and satisfac- jflo^'ls "^"'^ 
tory evidence of having taught school successfully for a 
period of twenty-four months after graduation, a fee of 
Five Dollars, and satisfactory testimonials as to health ^^ amended 
and moral character with the State Superintendent of ^^.^^^"^^^^ 
Public Instruction, who, with the President and Dean of 
the Normal Department of the Florida State College for 
Women, shall constitute a Commission to review and pass 
upon all applications for certificates based upon diplomas ; 
and the State Superintendent shall issue a Graduate Pri- 
mary, a Graduate First Grade, a Graduate Special, or a 



Graduate State Certificate as the Commission may de- 
termine. 

The applicant's college record must be the same or 
equivalent as to branches completed and grades made as 
is required for a Primary, First Grade, Special, or State 
Certificate issued upon examination under Sections 7, 10, 
11, and 12 of this Act; and all certificates issued under 
this Section shall have the rights, privileges and benefits 
conferred upon those holding like certificates issued as the 
result of examination. 

Certificates (B). The State Sui)eriutendent of Public Instruction 

Sffic1it"s'°° is hereby authorized to issue to any applicant who files 
l^^o™ other ^ valid teacher's certificate, or license to teach, issued by 
or in a State other than the State of Florida, when such 
applicant is endorsed and recommended by the Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction of the county wherein such 
applicant has been elected or emploj^ed to teach, a Cour- 
tesy Temporary Certificate valid for two (2) months, ex- 
cept as otherAvise provided, authorizing the applicant to 
teach in the school and that school only, and the subjects 
and only the subjects embraced in the certificate, or 
license filed; Provided, that the holder of such Courtesy 
Temporary Certificate must obtain, on or before the ex- 
piration of said two months, a regular Florida certificate 
under this Chapter; Provided further, that should the 
holder of such Courtesy Temporary Certificate fail upon 
examination to merit a certificate or fail to be awarded 
by the Commission a certificate based upon a diploma 
from a standard university, college or four-year normal 
school, the said Courtesy Temporary Certificate shall be 
void at once and no other Temporary Certificate shall be 
issued to said person; or if the certificate merited upon 
examination or awarded by the Commission does not em- 
brace each and all the subjects set out in said Courtesy 
Temporary Certificate, then the authority to teach the 
subject or subjects not so embraced shall immediately 
terminate. 



Certificate 



Sec. 18. No person shall be eligible for the principal- 
i^equh-ed* to ship of a Junior High School who does not hold a valid 
of TjuS life state certificate,' a state certificate, a graduate state 
High School, certificate, or a first grade certificate supplemented by a 



certificate or certificates covering tlie subjects embraced 
in tlie Junior High School course of study. 

No person shall be eligible for the principalship of an 
Intermediate or Senior High School who does not hold Hif.?i^°sdu>oi. 
a life state certificate, a state certificate, or a graduate 
state certificate. 

Sec. 19. For the conduct of all examinations of teach- 
ers there is hereby created a State Board of Examiners, of ^Examiners 
to be composed of three eminently successful and weh examinauons. 
qualified teachers to be appointed by the State Boara 
of Education upon the nomination of the State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction. 

Sec. 20. It shall be the duty of the State Board of 
Examiners to prepare all examination questions; to per- t)uties of. 
sonally conduct all teachers' examinations, oral an<.^ 
written, under such rules and regulations as the said 
Board of Examiners may suggest and as shall be ap- 
proved by the State Board of Education ; to grade all ex- 
aminations, oral and written, except as may be provided 
by the State Board of Education; and report weekly to 
the State Superintendent the name of each examinee with 
the grade made on eacli subject and the grade of certifi- 
cate to which each is entitled. 

Sec. 21. It shall be the duty of the State Superinten- 
dent of Public Instruction to issue and transmit without g^jft^^gu^^er- 
delay each and every certificate as recommended by thg intendent. 
said Board of Examiners, to keep a stub record of each 
certificate issued, and to publish in his Biennial Eeport 
a roster of all living holders of valid certificates. 

Sec. 22. Tbe State Board of Examiners shall make 
the examination questions practical, conducting them 
with the aim of testing the ability to teach rather than ^^^^.^^^^^ ^^ 
verbal memory and a knowledge of specific facts, and the^^examina- 
they shall make the examinations as uniform in the con- llons.'^"^^ 
duct, in the grading and in the question tests as may be 
possible without repetition of the same questions. 

In July of each year the Board of Examiners shall 
forward to each County Superintendent a printed sched- am!n€rs°'to'^'^' 
ule giving the places and dates of examinations for the advertise 
ensuing year, so arranged that one examination will be aa^tel! '^"'^ 

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All certifi- 
cates state- 
wide in val- 
idity. 



May be 
revoked. 



lield in four or more different sections of the State dur- 
ing each month, and one in each county of the state dur- 
ing the year; Provided, it shall not be unlawful for the 
Boards of Public Instruction of two or more counties in 
which the number of e*:aminees is small to consent for 
the examination to be held at some convenient and cen- 
tral point to their counties. 

Sec. 23. All certificates issued under this Act shall 
have State-wide validity, and any certificate may be sus- 
pended or revoked by a County Superintendent as now 
provided by law, or by the State Superintendent of Pub- 
lic Instruction upon his own motion, or upon the recom- 
mendation of the State Board of Examiners, when the 
holder proves to be incompetent, unsuccessful, or is guilty 
of some gross immorality. 



Tenure of 
Board of 
Examiners. 



Salaries 

and traveling 

expenses. 



Sec. 24. The members of the State Board of Exam- 
iners shall hold their positions at the discretion of the 
State Board of Education, and each shall receive an 
annual salary of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars and 
traveling expenses not to exceed Eight Hundred (|800) 
Dollars, payable monthly upon requisition upon the 
Comptroller, approved by the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction. This Board shall remit monthly to 
the State Treasurer all examination fees collected by 
them and make to the State Board of Education a de- 
tailed statement of all such fees, attaching thereto a copy 
of the State Treasurer's receipt. 



Duties of 
State Treas- 
urer and 
Comptroller. 



As amended 
by Cliapter 
7914. 



Sec. 25. The State Treasurer shall keep in a separate 
fund all fees arising under Sections 17 and 24 of this 
Act, from applications for certificates upon diplomas and 
from examinations held by the State Board of Examiners, 
which fund shall be disbursed for the payment of salaries 
and traveling expenses of the State Board of Examiners 
and for all expenses incident to and necessary in conduct- 
ing the examinations, in grading the papers, and in re- 
viewing applications under Section 17 of this Act, upon 
warrants drawn by the Comptroller upon vouchers ap- 
proved by the State Board of Education; and there is 
hereby appropriated the sum of Four Thousand ($4000.00) 
Dollars annually, or so much thereof as may be neces- 
sary, to carry out the provisions of this Act in case the 
fund provided for above shall be found insufficient. 



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Sec. 26. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the 
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 27. This Act shall take effect October 1 1917. 
Approved June 9, 1917. 

Amendments approved June 11, 1919. 



GRADUATE STATE CERTIFICATES. 

CHAPTER 7373. 

AN ACT to Amend Chapter 6540, Acts of 1913, the 
Same Being Entitled "An Act to Enable Normal 
School and College Graduates to Teach and Acquire 
Certificates in This State." 

Be It Enacted 'by the Legislature of thie State of Florida : 

Section 1. That Chapter 6540, Acts of 1913, be, and 
the same is, hereby amended to read as follows : 

Section 1. All graduates of the Normal and Collegiate 
Departments of the University of Florida and the Flor- certain giad- 
ida State College for Women, Avho in the regular exam- awarded* '^^ 
inations held in these institutions at the close of the certificates. 
Junior and Senior years, shall make a general average 
of not less than 85 per cent, on all subjects pursued and 
completed during these two years, with a grade on no 
subject below 60 per cent., shall be awarded a graduate 
state certificate by the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction upon certified reports filed with him by the 
presidents of these institutions ; Provided, that graduates 
of the Collegiate Department shall devote three-twenti- ditions 
eths of their time to the study of psychology and educa- pre^-eqSe. 
tion. 



Sec. 2. Any chartered College or University in this 
State that will submit to such inspection and regulations 

as the State Board of Education and the State Board of ua^ls 

Control may prescribe, and it being found that any such °:l^^^ of \hl"" 

institution prescribes and sustains the same on an equiv- state may re- 

alent course in the Normal or Collegiate Departments as clrtfficatS. 



When srad- 
of 



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maintained in the State University or the Florida State 
College for Women, the graduates of any and all sucli 
institutions in this State shall receive the same graduate 
state certificates, as provided in Section 1 of this Act 
for graduates of the University of Florida and the Flor- 
ida State College for Women, and they shall be based 
upon like reports filed by the president or^ presidents of 
any and all such institutions. 



Duties of 
ipresidents to 
make reports. 



What and 

iiow report. 



Freshmen 
and Sopho- 
more grades 
to be re- 
ported. 



High school 
grades may 
be reported. 



Sec. 3. The president of each of the two State insti- 
tutions named in Section 1 of this Act, and the president 
of each and every institution coming under the provi- 
sions of Section 2 of this Act, shall make a certified an- 
nual report, as soon as practicable after each Commence- 
ment, to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
which report shall show in separate lists the names of 
all pupils completing the Normal and Collegiate courses, 
and specify the subjects pursued and completed by each 
graduate both in the Junior and Senior years with the 
grade made on a per cent, basis on each subject com- 
pleted severally and separately ; Provided, that the grades 
of the Freshman and Sophomore years of such graduates 
as complete a full four-year course in any of the colleges 
or universities coming under Sections 1 and 2 of this 
Act, shall be reported in the same manner as the grades 
for the Junior and Senior years; Provided further, that 
each report may show the grades made by each graduate 
in the high school course pursued previous to entering 
any of said universities or said colleges naming the high 
school or institution of learning in which these grades 
were obtained. 



Iiuty of Si;i( 
Superintend- 
ent in rela- 
tion to. 



Life Graduate 
State Cer- 
tificates. 



It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent to 
issue to each such graduate a Graduate State Certificate, 
recording therein all subjects pursued and the grades 
made thereon, in the Junior and Senior years, as well as 
those reported for the high school course, and the Fresh- 
man and Sophomore years, which certificates shall have 
all the privileges, rights and benefits conveyed to those 
holding like certificates issued as the result of exam- 
ination as provided by law. 

Sec. 4. A Life Graduate State Certificate, good in any 
part of the State and of perpetual validity, shall be is- 
sued by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 



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without examination, to any teacher holding a graduate 
state certificate who has successfully taught in this State 
for a period of twenty-four months under a graduate 
stat6 certificate, and who shall present satisfactory en- 
dorsement from three persons holding Life Certificates 
showing eminent ability in teaching and school govern- 
ment and the said Life Certificates shall have thereon the 1^^ ^heu 
subjects enumerated in the graduate state certificate and issuable. 
shall have all the privileges, rights and benefits conveyed 
to those holding a Life Certificate issued as a result of an 
examination (for) State Certificates as provided by law. 

Sec. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
Act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its 
passage and approval by the Governor, or upon its be- 
coming a law without his approval. 

Approved June 7, 1917. 



VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 

CHAPTEE 7376, LAWS OF 1917— AMENDED BY 

CHAPTER 7592, LAWS OF 1919. 

Be It Enacted Ip the Legislature of the IState of Florida: 

Section 1. That the State of Florida hereby accepts ^j^^ g^^^g g^,. 
the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved February cepts the 
23, 1917, entitled: "An Act to provide for the promotion ^ongrltTioV 
of vocational education ; to provide for cooperation with Education! 
the States in the promotion of such education in agricul- 
ture and the trades and industries; to provide for coop- 
eration with the States in the preparation of teachers of 
vocational subjects ; and to appropriate money and regu- 
late its expenditures." The good faith of the State is 
hereby pledged to make available for the several purposes 
of said Acts funds sufficient at least to equal the sums 
allotted, from time to time, to this State from the appro- 
priations made by said Act and to meet all conditions 
necessary to entitle the State to the benefits of said Act. 



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Sec. 2. The State Treasurer is hereby designated cus- 
todian of all funds allotted to this State from the appro- 
priations made by said Act, and he shall receive and 
provide for the proper custody and disbursement of the 
same in accordance with said Act. 

Sec. 3. The State Board of Education is hereby cre- 
ated the State Vocational Education Board contemplated 
in Section Five (5) of said Act of Congress, and said 
Board is hereby designated, authorized and required to 
cooperate as provided in and required by the aforesaid 
Act of Congress, with the Federal Board of Vocational 
Education, in the administration of the provisions of 
said Act, and to do all things necessary to entitle the 
State to receive the benefits thereof. 

Sec. 4. The State Vocational Board shall designate 
the University of Florida at Gainesville and the Florida 
State College for Women at Tallahassee as the schooLs 
for the training of teachers of agricultural, trade, indus- 
trial and home economics subjects, the one for men and 
the other for women. 

Sec. 5. The State Vocational Education Board shall 
have all necessary authority to co-operate with the Fed- 
eral Board of Vocational Education in the Administra- 
tion of said Act of Congress ; and to Administer any Leg- 
islation pursuant thereto Enacted by the State of Flor- 
ida ; and to administer the Funds provided by the Fed- 
eral Government and the State of Florida under the pro- 
visions of this Act for the promotion of Vocational Edu- 
cation in Agricultural Subjects, Trade and Industrial 
Subjects, and Home Economics Subjects. It shall have 
full authority to formulate plans for the promotion of 
vocational Education in such subjects as an Essential 
and Integral Part of the Public School System of Educa- 
tion in the State of Florida, and to provide for the prep- 
aration of Teachers in such Subjects. It shall have au- 
thority to fix the compensation of such Officials and As- 
sistants as may be necessary to administer the Federal 
Act, and this Act for the State of Florida, and to pay 
such compensation and other Necessary Expenses of Ad- 
ministration from Funds appropriated in this Act. It 
shall have authority to make studies and investigations 
relating to Vocational Education in such subjects; to 



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promote and aid in the establishment by Local Communi- 
ties of Schools, departments or classes ; to prescribe qual- 
ifications for the Teachers, directors and Supervisors ot 
such Subjects and to have full authority to provide for 
the certification of such teachers, directors and super- 
visors. It shall have full authority to co-operate with 
Local Communities in the maintenance of Schools, De- 
partments or Classes, or to Establish such Schools, De- 
partments or Classes under its own direction and con- 
trol. It shall have full authority to establish and de- 
termine by general Eegulations the qualifications to be 
possessed by persons engaged in the training of Vocation- 
al Teachers. 

Sec. 6. That the State Superintendent of Public In- ^^^^^ super- 
struction, who is ex-officio a Member of the State mtendent ' 
Vocational Board, shall act as Executive Officer of Ex^ecutive 
the Board for the purpose of Administering the said ^^^^'"^'■ 
Federal Act and this Act, and shall, by and with tbe ad- 
vice and consent of the State Vocational Education 
Board, designate such assistants as shall be necessary to 
properly carry out the provisions of this Act. The State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall also carry 
into effect such rules and regulations as the State Vo- 
cational Education Board may adopt for the promotion 
of Vocational Education in this State as the State Vo- 
cational Education Board may require. The Eecords of 
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as far 
as they pertain to the Provisions of this Act, shall be 
kept in his office in the Capitol of the State. 

Sec. 7. The Board of Public Instruction of any Conn- county 
ty, or the Board of Trustees of any Educational Institu- boards '^of 
tion, maintaining a Department of less than college grade trustees may 
under public control, may establish and maintain voca- Depart-^"^ 
tional schools, Departments, or Classes, giving Instruc- cia^ses.""^ 
tion of less than college grade in agriculture, trades and 
industries, or in home economics, and any such Board 
of Public Instruction or Board of Trustees may use any 
moneys raised by public taxation in the same manner as 
moneys for other school purposes are used for the main- 
tenance and support of Public Schools or Classes of less 
than college grade. 



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Approved 
Sc'aools and 
Classes to 
Share 
Funds. 



In 



Appropri- 
ation. 



Xot more 
than $5000 
to be used 
for Adminis- 
tration. 



See. 8. Whenever any school or classes have been or- 
ganized in accordance with Rules and Regulations adopt- 
ed by the State Vocational Education Board and shall 
have been approved by the State Vocational Education 
Board, the District or Institutions maintaining the 
same, shall be entitled to share in Federal and State 
Funds available for the promotion of Vocational Educa- 
tion to an amount not less than fifty per cent, of the 
moneys expended for the salaries of teachers for Voca- 
tional subjects in such approved schools or classes. 

Sec. 9. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions 
of said Act of Congress and Chapter 7:376 of the Laws 
of 1917 as amended herebv, the sum of Thirtv Thousand 
Dollars (|30,000.00) shall be available July 1st, 1919, 
and the sum of Thirty-five Thousand Dollars (|35,000.00) 
shall be available July 1st, 1920, and the said sums are 
hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State Treas- 
ury not otherwise appropriated. 

Sec. 10. The money appropriated under Section 9 of 
this Act shall be paid out by the State Treasurer under 
the Order of the State Vocational Education Board, pro- 
vided that not more than Five Thousand Dollars (|5,- 
000.00) annually shall be expended by said Board for the 
purpose of administration, research, investigation, etc., 
as provided for in Section 1 of this Act. 

Sec. 11. This Act shall take effect upon its passage 
and approval by the Governor, or upon its becoming a 
law without his approval. 

Approved May 31, 1919. 

COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. 

CHAPTER 7808. 



AN ACT to Provide for Compulsory School Attendance 
in the State of Florida of All Children Between Cer- 
tain Ages, and Requiring Every Parent, Guardian or 
Other Person Having the Custody, Control or Charge 



end cbildren 
to school. 



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of Childieu to Send Snoli Children to Soliool ; to Pro- 
vide for the Means of Enforcement of This Act, and 
Penalties for Violations Thereof. 

Be It Enacted T)}]' the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That from and after July 1, 1919, every 
parent, guardian or other person having citizenship with- 
in the State of Florida having the custody, control or 
charge of any child or children within the State of Flor- 
ida between the ages of seven and sixteen years, both in- g„aj?'{*^^^g ^nd 
elusive, shall cause said child or children to attend a others to 
public, or private school each year for a terra or period of 
not less than substantially the number of days the public 
or private school which said child attends is held an- 
nually in the district in w^hich the school is located or 
in which such child or children may reside; Provided, 
that any child may be taught by parent or guardian upon 
written authority from the County Superintendent of 
Public Instruction of the County in which they reside; 
the County Superintendent of Public Instruction being 
hereby authorized to grant such permission only in cases 
of necessity, which permission shall not extend for a 
period of time bej^ond the end of the current school year, 
and in cases where such authority is granted the said 
child shall report to the County Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, or some person designated by him, for ex- 
amination in the work covered, at least twice a year, and 
if the County Superintendent of Public Instruction shall 
determine, after such examination that any child has not 
been properly taught, he shall revoke the authority of the 
parent or guardian to teach such child, and shall require 
said parent or guardian having the custody, control or 
charge of said child to cause said child to attend a public 
or private school for the remainder of the said school 
year ; and if any parent, guardian or other person having 
the custody, control or charge of any child shall fail to 
■comply with the order of the County Superintendent of 
Public Instruction he shall be liable to the penalties here- 
inafter provided. Provided, that in the following enume- 
rated cases all children between the ages of seven and six- 
teen years, both inclusive, shall be exempt from the pro- 
visions of this Act : 



Exempt. First. Any child who is mentally or physically in 

Sentafiy ov Capacitated to perform school duties; satisfactory proof 

physically iu- of such incapacity to be submitted to the Attendance 

capacitated. ^^^^^^^ i' •> 



Second. Any child who has satisfactorily completed 
complete^'' ^^^ eight grammar school grades, as prescribed by the 
grammar State Course of Study of this State, or a course of study 

grades. adopted bj any county or private school or tutor, or the 

equivalent of such eight grades completed in another 
State, and holding a certificate of having completed such 
grades, signed b ythe principal of the school under whom 
completed and countersigned by the County Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction of the Coilnty in which said 
grade was completed. 

Whoso strv- Third. Any child whose services are necessary for the 

ices is needed support or assistauce of a widowed mother or other per- 
famny!*^^'^^* °* SOU dependent upon said child for support ; said depend- 
ency to be proven by affidavit of the dependent person 
and at least two other affidavits as to such dependency 
by disinterested persons not related to said child or 
dependent, and such other proof as may be required by 
and is satisfactory to the Attendance Officer having au- 
thority to grant exemptions. 

Fourth. Any child between the ages of seven and nine 
years, inclusive, who resides more than two miles from 
any school, and any child from ten to sixteen years of 
age Avho resides more than three miles from any school, 
unless free transportation is furnished. 

Fifth. Any child whose parent, guardian or other per- 
son having the custody, control or charge of said child 
can make satisfactory proof that he or she is unable to 
provide the necessary books and clothing, unless said 
necessary books and clothing shall be furnished by some 
other means to said child. 

Sixth. Any unusual cause acceptable to the Attend- 
ance Officer for the district in which the school, public 
or private, which any child is required to attend is 
located; Provided that request for excuse, setting forth 
the cause, be made in writing by the parent, guardian 
or other person having the custody, control or charge of 
said child, such request to be filed within two days after 
the first dav's absence. 



When trans- 
portation not 
furnisboa. 



When par- 
ents, etc.. 
cannot pvi 
vide books 
etc. 



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Sec. 2, Wlieuever, under tlie provisions of this Act, 
any child shall receive instruction privately or in any pi-ivate 
private school, the private teacher, principal or teacher 
in charge of such private school shall keep a record of the 
attendance of such child or children and the County 
Superintendent in checking his lists of attendance may 
call on the private • school principal to verify a child's 
attendance. 



schools to 
keep records. 



Sec. 3. Occasional non-attendance at public school by 



Occasional 



ance. 



Teacher to 
keep record 



any child required to attend public school under the pro- non-attend 
visions of this Act, amounting to not more than four days 
unexcused absence in any school month, shall not render 
any parent, guardian or other person having the custody, 
control or charge of such child liable to any of the penal- 
ties provided by this Act. 

Sec. 4. The principal or teacher in charge of any 
public school shall keep an accurate record of the attend- 
ance and non-attendance of all children enrolled in the ^"^kfy^non- 
schooi over which he or she is in charge, and shall make attendance. 
report of non-attendance of any child to the Attendance 
OflBcer on Friday of each week during the school term, 
together with the reason therefor, if known to said prin- 
cipal or teacher. The certificate of any teacher failing 
to keep such record and make such report may be re- 
voked by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
upon satisfactory proof of such failure. 

Sec. o. The County Board' of Public Instruction in Appointment 
each County is hereby authorized and directed to appoint and removal 

* J. J. J /-\ .on t. ^ <! of Attendance 

one or more Attendance OflBcers, as may be necessary for officers. 
the faithful execution of the provisions of this Act, and 
to prescribe the district or territory to be under the super- 
vision of said xlttendance Officer or Officers, and to fix 
the compensation of said Attendance Officer or Officers 
for the time actually employed in the performance of 
duties, said compensation to be paid from the County 
School Fund. And if deemed advisable by the County 
Board of Public Instruction, any Supervisor or Trustee 
of schools within the County may be appointed as At- 
tendance Officer or Officers. The County Board of Public 
Instruction is hereby authorized to remove any Attend- 
ance Officer who fails to perform his duties as herein 
prescribed. 



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Attendance 
Officers to 
take census. 



Attendance 
Officer to 
serve notice 
of non- 
attendance. 



Sec. 6. During the month of June in each and every 
year, it shall be the duty of every Attendance Officer ap"- 
pointed under the provisions of this Act to take an accu- 
rate census, in triplicate, of all children betv/een the ages 
of seven and eighteen years in the territory or district 
in which he is acting; the said census to show the name, 
sex, age and date of birth, and distance from the nearest 
school, of each child, the school grade completed, and the 
name of the parent, guardian or other person having the 
custody, control or charge of such children, with the 
postoffice address thereof; and on or before the first day 
of July of each and every year, one copy thereof shall be 
filed with the County Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion, one copy with the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction, and one copy shall be retained by the At- 
tendance Officer, but no child over sixteen years of age 
is under compulsion to attend school. 

Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Attendance Officer 
to serve a notice upon any parent, guardian or other 
person having the custody, control or charge of any child 
who has been absent from school in violation of the pro- 
visions of this Act, to cause said child to attend school 
as herein provided; and any parent, guardian or other 
person having the custody, control or charge of any child 
who, upon notice herein provided for being served on him 
or her, fails to comply with the provisions of this Act, 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial 
and conviction thereof by any Court of this State having 
Jurisdiction of misdemeanors, shall be fined not more 
than Five Dollars for each offense, and upon failure or 
refusal to pay such fine, said parent, guardian or other 
person having the custody, control or charge of said child 
shall be imprisoned not exceeding five days for each 
offense; Provided, that upon conviction for any first 
offense sentence rnsLj, upon payment of costs, be sus- 
pended until the second conviction of the same person 
for a similar offense, and that each day a child remains 
away from school after service of notice by the Attend- 
ance Officer, as herein provided, unless one of the grounds 
for excuse provided for by this Act exists, shall consti- 
tute a separate offense, and subject the offending person 
to penalties accordingly. All fines collected under the 
provisions of this Act shall be paid into the County 
School Fund of the County in which collected. 



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t?ec. 8. It shall, be the duty of each Attendance Officer Attendance 
appointed under the provisions of this Act to furnish the Ornish *° 
Principal or teacher in charge of any school within the children ^re- 
territory or district for which the Attendance Officer is quired to at- 
appointed with a list of the names of all children in such *^°^ ^''^°°^- 
district who should attend school. 

Sec. 9. Any Attendance Officer appointed under the 
provisions of this Act is hereby authorized to enter, for Attendance 
the purpose of assisting in the proper enforcement of this thorized^to 
Act, any office, factory or business house, of any nature enter factor- 
whatsoever, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or ^®^' ^*^' 
not any child or children are enrolled or employed therein 
who should, under the provisions of this Act, be in at- 
tendance upon any school. 

Sec. 10. It is hereby made the duty of the Attendance Attendance 
Officer in the territory or district over which he has ^o^mpiaint^ fn*^ 
supervision, or for which he is appointed, to make and Court. 
file in the proper C'ourt complaint in due form against 
any person or persons violating the provisions of this 
Act. 

Sec. 11. Every Attendance Officer appointed under 
the provisions of this Act shall keep a record of all at- offfcer to^ 
tendance notices served, all cases prosecuted, fines im- ^^^"^ record, 
posed and other services rendered, and shall make annual 
report of the same to the County Board' of Public In- 
struction, on blanks to be furnished him, and shall make 
reports more frequently if required by the County Board 
of Public Instruction, and shall perorm such other duties 
as shall be required of him by the County Superintend- 
ent of Public Instruction. 

Sec. 12. If any parent, guardian or other person hav- 
ing the custody, control or charge of any child within when parents 
the compulsory school attendance ages as herein pro- from%^enai- 
vided shall present to the County Board of Public In- *^®^- 
struction, or to the Court before which a trial may be 
had in cases of prosecution under this Act, satisfactory 
proof that he or she is unable to compel said child to 
attend school, said person or persons shall be exempt 
from the penalties, herein provided for the non-attend 
ance of such child ; and in all such cases said child shall, 
if a boy, be committed by the said court to the Florida 
Industrial School for Boys, and if a girl, to the State 



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Industrial School for Girls, or said boy or said girl may 
be committed to some other Correctional School for the 
remainder of the current school term. 



Penalty. 



Notices, 
forms, etc. 



Act to be 
published. 



Period of 

compulsory 

attendance. 



Savins 
clause. 



Sec. 13. Any County Superintendent of Public In- 
struction who fails to perform the duties required of him 
by this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding 
Fifty (150.00) Diollars for each offense. 

Sec. 14. All notices, forms and blanks to be used in 
properly carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be 
prescribed by the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction and furnished by the County Board of Public 
Instruction. 

Sec. 15. The Board of Public Instruction of each 
County in this State shall cause this Act to be published 
in full once a week for at least two weeks prior to the 
first day of July, 1910, in some uewsp'aper in the County, 
and if there be no newspaper published in the County, 
then to cause same to be published by posting copies 
thereof at the Court House of the County and at each 
public school in the County for at least two weeks prior 
to the opening day of eacli of said schools. 

Sec. 16. The period of compulsory attendance under 
this Act shall commence with the beginning of the school 
term nearest the seventh birthday of the child and end 
at the close of the school term nearest the sixteenth 
birthday, except as is otherwise herein provided. 

Sec. 17. That if for any reason any Section, Para- 
graph, Provision, Clause, or Part of this Act, shall be held 
unconstitutional or invalid, that fact shall not affect or 
destroy any other Section, Paragraph, Provision, Clause 
or Part of this Act, that is not in, and of itself invalid, 
but the remaining portion shall be in force without re- 
gard to that so invalidated. 

Sec. 18. All laws or parts of laws in conflict v^ith the 
provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby re- 
pealed. 

Sec. 19. This Act shall take effect immediately upon 
its passage and approval by the Governor, or upon its be- 
coming a law without his approval. 

Approved June 11, 1919. 



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STATE COURSE OF STUDY. 

CHAPTER 7910. 

AN ACT to Validate and Adopt the Uniform Course of 
Study for Elementary and High Schools, Promulgated 
by the Department of Education in the Year 1918, to 
Provide for the Publication of a Second Edition of 
Said Course of Study, and Making an Appropriation 
Therefor. 

Whereas, the Legislature at the Session of 1903, Sec- 
tions 389 to 394, General Statutes, provided for a Uni- 
form Course of Study ; and, 

Whereas, The Course of Study prepared and promul- 
gated in pursuance of said law had become antiquated 
and obsolete, and it was necessary that the same be re- 
vised and brought up' to date; and, 

Whereas, The Legislature failed to make any appro- 
priation at its Session in 1917 for this purpose, and that 
by arrangement with the several County School Boards 
tiie sum of -11,000.00 was subscribed on the basis of 
wealth of the Counties, .$990.00 of which was paid ; and. 

Whereas, The cost for the necessary expenses of the 
Committee in preparing and editing said Course of Study 
was 1734.56 and the cost of publication of 5000 copies 
was 1974.83, a total cost of |1709.39, of which |990.00 was 
paid by County School Boards and the balance of |719.39 
paid from the Contingent Expense Appropriation for the 
State Superintendent; and, 

Whereas, It has been found that the number of copies 
(_5000) was wholly inadequate for the requirements, there 
being over 6200 teachers in the schools of the State, and 
that it is desirable and necessary that a second edi tion 
of 5000 copies of said Course of Study be printed, and 
the cost to the State of the jBrst edition having been 
very small and the amount paid by the State virtually 
saved bv economies in other directions ; therefore. 



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1918 course 
of study val- 
idated and 
adopted. 



Appropria- 
tions for 
vision and 
printing. 



Be It Enacted hi/ the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

Section 1. That the Uniform Course of Stud}' for 
the Elementary and High Schools issued by the State 
Department of Education in 1918, be and the same is 
heileby ajdopted and validated and prescribed as the 
Course of Study for the Schools of the State of Florida ; 
provided, however, that said Course of Study shall be con- 
sidered as containing and prescribing the minimum re- 
quirements only, and that nothing herein contained shall 
be so construed as to prevent or prohibit any school or 
schools from pursuing or completing other, and addition- 
al or advanced Avork, 

Sec. 2. That the State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction is hereby authorized and empowered to have 
said Course of Study revised and at least 5000 copies 
of same printed, and the sum of twelve Hundred Dol- 
lars (|1,200.00) be and the same is hereby appropriated 
out of any monej^ in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, to pay for such revision and printing. 

Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately upon 
its passage and approval by the Governor or upon be- 
coming a law without the Governor's signature. 

Approved June 9, 1919. 



MILITARY TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS. 



CHAPTER 7011. 



Course of 
military in- 
struction to 
be prescribed. 



Be It Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida: 

AN ACT to Authorize the State Board of Education 
to prescribe a Course in Military Instruction and 
Training in the High Schools of the State of Florida. 

Section 1. That the State Board of Education of the 
State of Florida be and is hereby authorized and directed 
to prescribe a Course in Militarv Instruction and Train- 
ing to be used in High Schools of the State of Florida 
having an enrollment of twenty-five or more male pupils 
in and above the ninth grade ; and to prescribe the kind 



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and style of uniform and equipment to be used by pupils 
taking the said Course in Militar}' Instruction and 
Training. 

Sec. 2. That the Boards of Public Instruction in and 
for the several counties in which High Schools are main- 
tained shall be empowered to designate the High School 
or schools in which the said Course in Military Instruc- 
tion and Training shall be used and maintained. 

Sec. 3. That the said Boards of Public Instruction 
be and are hereby authorized to receive or procure rifles 
or other military equipment necessary for the said Course 
in Military Instruction and Training and to give security 
therefor when leased or borrowed from the Federal Gov- 
ernment. , 

Sec. 4. That the pupil or pupils taking the said 
Course in Military Instruction and Training shall be re 
quired to buy and furnish his or their own uniform or 
uniforms. 

Sec. 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict 
with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 6. That this Act shall be in force and effect im- 
mediately upon approval of the Governor or upon its 
passage as a law without such approval. 

AppTOved June 9, 1919. 



Conniy 
Boards may 
designate 
schools. 



May 11 
rifles. 



Students to 
furnish uni- 
forms. 



CONSOLIDATION OF SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL 
DISTRICTS. 

CHAPTER 7913. 

AN ACT to Authorize the Consolidation of Special Tax 
School Districts in the State o'f Florida, and to Provide 
for the Liabilities, Government, Powers and Manage- 
ment Thereof. 



Be It Enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Florida: School Dis- 
trict may be 
consolidated. 

Section 1. That any two or more contiguous Special 
Tax School Districts in the State of Florida may be con- 
solidated as hereinafter authorized. 



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Procedure 
consolidate 
school dis- 
tricts. 



Must vote in 
favor of con- 
solidation. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of Public In- 
struction of any County to order an election to be held 
throughout any two or more contiuguous Special Tax 
School Districts at such time and place as said Board 
may direct whenever one-fourth of the qualified electors 
that pay a tax on real or personal property and are resi- 
dents in such Special Tax School Diistrict shall petition 
for such election to determine whether said Districts shall 
become consolidated into a single Special Tax School 
District for the purpose of levying and collecting a dis- 
trict school tax for the exclusive use of the public free 
schools in the entire area included within the said dis- 
trict and of having the other powers of a Special Tax 
School District under the Constitution and Laws of Flor- 
ida. Such petition shall contain one-fourth of the quali- 
ged electors residing in eacli of the districts proposed to 
be consolidated. At said election the following matters 
shall be voted upon and determined. 

1. Whether the said districts shall be consolidated 
and shall become a single Special Tax School ]>istrict. 
To authorize the consolidation of said district it shall be 
required that at said election a majority of the votes 
cast in each of the districts proposed to be consolidated 
shall be in favor of consolidation. 



Trustees of 
consolidated 
districts. 



2. Who shall be trustees of the proposed consolidated 
district, and the three persons receiving the highest num- 
ber of votes cast shall be declared the trustees elected 
for said consolidated Special Tax School District, if the 
result of said election be in favor of consolidation, and 
shall serve for the next ensuing two vears. 



Millage to be 
levied. 



3. The number of mills of district tax to be levied 
and collected annually for the two succeeding years with- 
in the proposed consolidated district for the exclusive 
use of the public free schools thereof. If said election be 
in favor of consolidation, the number of mills of district 
tax for the two succeeding years receiving the highest 
number of votes shall be levied and collected in said dis- 
trict. 



Sec. 3. Except so far as in conflict with the provi- 
gj^ting giQjjg Qf this Act, the existing provisions of law relating 

to^^ppiy to the calling, holding and canvassing and determining 

c'^nfuct'"* *° fhe result of^ elections for the creation of Special Tax 



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When consoli- 
dation is ef- 
fective. 



Obligations 
of consoli- 
dated dis- 
tricts merged. 



School Districts, shall apply to elections provided to be 
held nnder the terms and provisions of this Act. 

Sec. 4. When the result of any election held under 
the provisions of this Act shall be in favor of consolida- 
tion, the districts voting in favor of such consolidation, 
shall become one entire district from and after the ex- 
piration of thirty days after the entry of the Board of 
Public Instruction of the County in which such districts 
are situated in the minutes of said Board of the result 
of such election. 

Sec. 41/^. When two or more Special Tax School Dis- 
tricts shall be consolidated as authorized by the provi- 
sions of this Act, the entire consolidated district shall 
become liable for the payment of all bonds and other in- 
debtedness of each of the districts so consolidated, and 
the entire area of the consolidated district shall be sub- 
ject to be taxed for the payment thereof. The consoli- 
dated district shall become entitled to all of the funds 
and property of the districts consolidated. 

Sec. 5. Where any tax school districts become con- 
solidated under the provisions of this Act, no tax that 
shall have been levied or assessed prior to such consoli- 
dation in any one or more of the districts included with- 
in the consolidated district shall be impaired by such 
consolidation, but subsequent to such consolidation all 
taxes thereafter levied and assessed in said consolidated 
district for the support exclusively of the schools of such 
district shall be in accordance with the result of the elec- 
tion creating such consolidated District or subsequent 
elections held therein. 

Sec. 6. Except so far as in conflict with the provi- 
sions of this Act, the existing provisions of law relating j-eplaied* 
to Special Tax School Districts, the powers and duties 
of the trustees thereof and County Boards of Public In- 
struction, and the County Superintendent of Public In- 
struction, the levy and assessment of taxes and the is- 
suance and sale of bonds by Special Tax School Dis- 
tricts shall apply to^any consolidated district created 
under the provisions of this Act. 



Tax not in- 
validated by 
consolidation. 



Existing 



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Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect immediately upon 
its becoming a law. 

Approved June 9, 1919. 



County 
Boards may 
acquire land 
for farm 
demonstra- 
tion work. 



LANDS FOR FARM DEMONSTRATION. 

CHAPTER 7916. 

AN ACT to Authorize the County Boards of Public In- 
struction to Acquire Lands for Use in Farm Demon- 
stration Work. 

Be It E'nnctedbi/ the Legislature of the ^tate of Florida: 

Section 1. The County Boards of Public Instruction 
of the several counties of this State are hereby author- 
ized to acquire by purchase or lease or gift suitable lands 
for ues in farm demonstration work in connection with 
any school in the county ; Provided, any tract so acquired 
shall not exceed forty acres in area for each school and 
shall be located convenient and accessible to the school 
in connection with which it is to be used. 

Sec. 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with 
the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 3. That this Act shall take effect immediately 
upon its passage and approval by the Governor, or upon 
its becoming a law without such approval. 

Approved May 29, 1919. 



PAY OF SCHOOL BOARDS. 

CHAPTER 7882, 

AN ACT Fixing the Compensation of Members of the 
County School Boards in Counties Having a Popula- 
tion Between Thirty-seven Thousand and Fifty Thou- 
sand Persons According to the Last State Census. 



2!) 

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida : 

Section 1. The Members of the various County School 
Boards in counties having a population of not less than 
thirty-seven thousand, and not more than fifty thousand 
persons, according to the Census taken by this State in 
1915, shall be paid from the County School Funds for 
their services, an annual salary of Six Hundred Dollars 
(1600.00) each, payable in monthly installments. 

Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect upon becoming 
a law. 

Approved June 9, 1919. 



CHAPTER 7883. 

AN ACT in Eelation to the Compensation of Members 
of the County School Boards in Counties having a 
population of more than Thirty-seven Thousand (37,- 
000), and not more than Forty Thousand (40,000) Peo- 
ple. 

Be It Enacted iy the Legislature of the State of Florida : 

Section 1. The Members of the various county school 
Boards in this State in Counties having a population of 
more than Thirty-seven Thousand (37,000) people, and 
not more than Forty Thousand (40,000) people, accord- 
ing to the Census taken in this State in 1915, shall be 
paid from the County School Fund for their services, 
in lieu of all other compensations, Six hundred (|600.00) 
dollars each per year, payable in monthly installments. 

Sec. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict 
with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 3. That this Act shall take effect on becoming a 
law. 

Approved June 9, 1919. 



